During these days, it is such a tradition to set some New Year’s resolutions. Because new year, new life, isn’t it? Goals such as going to the gym, give up smoking, saving money or keeping a healthy nutrition without many excesses.
It is true that, when the new year arrives, people recharge batteries in order to start with strength and achieve all their goals. The list is wider and wider every time, but in the podium, we always find the same clichés: losing weight, keeping a healthy nutrition and traveling.
To which extent do we try to achieve these resolutions?
At Gastronomic Spain we can help you get the three things, do you want to know how?
New Year’s resolutions: keeping a healthy nutrition, losing weight and travelling
Currently, taking into account the situation we are going through, we must have life philosophy: new year, new goals. The goals we set this year are easy: keeping a healthy nutrition, losing weight and travelling.
It must be said that the two first goals can be achieved with some willpower. But what about travelling? You may be wondering how to get it now that we are in a worldwide pandemic. It is actually very easy: through food. Let’s go!
Gastronomic Spain offers you Spanish products for a good healthy diet
Gastronomic Spain can help you to keep a healthy nutrition easily and without complications.
For it, it is necessary to have quality products. But, above all, these have to be healthy, so we can get the so desired balanced and healthy diet after Christmas.
Vegetables and soups are essential in these purifying diets. On the one hand, vegetables are essential for our health. As well as fruits, their vitamins and antioxidants protect us from possible illnesses. In addition, they are an important part of every healthy strategy. On the other hand, soups help us to keep a correct hydration, as their main ingredient is water. In addition to be low in calories, they are highly nutritive and pleasant, especially in wintertime.
We are going to see some of these products in detail:
Borage
The borage is more than a healthy and delicious food. It is a leafy vegetable of excellent qualities which will help you to keep a healthy nutrition. This low-calories herb contains many vital minerals, as well as vitamins, so it helps to remove the harmful damages of our bodies.
This is a product typical of Spanish gastronomy which is highly used in soaps. It comes from Aragón, even though its consumption has spread through the whole Spanish territory.
In addition to being a good and healthy product for our organism, this plant has also medicinal properties and uses. It is considered to be a good hormonal regulator, as well as to have a depurative and skin-protective action, perfect against skin defects such as eczemas and spots.
Chards
Chards are also considered to be a good product to keep a balanced diet. It is a product of high nutritional value and low caloric intake.
Chards are a biennial herbaceous plant which is yearly cultivated. It is characterized because of its big light-green leaves and its low caloric intake.
It is highly appreciated within the gastronomic field because it provides vitamins, fibre, folic acid, and mineral salts with high content in water (48%). The external leaves, which are usually the greenest, are the ones which contain the highest number of vitamins and carotenoids.
It is cooked the same way as spinaches, as they are relatives. The plants which are very tender can be consumed raw in salads.
Piquillo peppers
The piquillo peppers are a kind of pepper, a variety from Navarra, from the excellent vegetable gardens from the banks of the Ebro river. It must be noted that piquillo peppers are protected by a Designation of Origin since 1986.
This product is the typical one that makes your mouth water. The pepper is one of the most valued products of Mediterranean cuisine as it is such as delicacy. Moreover, they are usually one of the most demanded dishes. There are many ways of preparing the stuffed piquillo peppers such as: with tuna, crab, cod or ground beef and fried banana.
Among their healthy characteristics, peppers have a low caloric content and a great amount of fibre, so they are very accurate for diets. Antioxidant and anticancerogenic properties are attributed to them because of their high content of Vitamin C, beta-carotenoids, and lycopene.
Soaps
As we have previously commented, soups help keeping a correct hydrating, as their main ingredient is water. In addition to be low in calories, they are very nutritive and pleasant, especially in wintertime.
These soaps are made basically with water and vegetables, so they make the perfect combination in order to keep a healthy nutrition.
A balanced Spanish diet will help lose weight
Every balanced and healthy diet will be able to help you lose weight. You have to keep a good feeding, combining meat, fish, vegetables and fruit. These four elements will be essential in order to lose weight. But there is a missing important component that could be even more helpful: working out.
Working out will extremely help you to lose weight. Just one hour a day is the experts’ recommendation.
Then, if you actually want to achieve these goals, you just have to start to work hard on it, so they come true. Everything requires effort, patience, and dedication.
And what about travelling?
At Gastronomic Spain we are aware that travelling and discovering new places is very hard because of the COVID situation we are going through right now.
But, for those who live outside Spain, we have the perfect solution, so you feel as if you were at home. Gastronomic Spain is the biggest online shop of Spanish food with delivery to all Europe. Thanks to our wide catalogue, you will be able to enjoy your favourite products even though you are far away.
Valencian paella, cocido from Madrid, Asturian fabada, migas from Extremadura, cecina from León or the jewel of the crown: Ibérico ham. You will find these products in the online shop. This way, you will be able to travel around your land by means of food, to feel your loved ones by means of memories, and to make your European friends feel jealous.
Do not hesitate and visit Gastronomic Spain. You will discover a gastronomic paradise that can be at your fingertips.
